Year: 2008

Sonnet Technologies has announced the Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34,
a two-port SATA host controller designed for video capture and
editing in the field, studio, or office.

September sees the launch of MacSupportJobs.com
(http://www.macsupportjobs.com/), a new web site specializing in the
recruitment of Apple Mac support, development and sales professionals
from around the world.

Conrad Heron, MD of MacSupportJobs.com saw the need for a dedicated
Mac technical support job board when recruiting in London and New
York for Mac support professionals.

“There was no-where dedicated to recruiting just technical Mac
support professionals,” he says. “It was either a creative site with
mostly art workers and the likes or general IT sites.

Black Cat Systems (http://www.blackcatsystems.com) has released
version 3.6.0 of Sound Byte, which turns your Mac into a” cart
machine” for playing sound recordings, such as music and special
effects.

The latest version of Sound Byte adds a remote control option
allowing another computer to control Sound Byte over a LAN or the
internet, the ability to toggle a serial port handshake line to
control an external device such as a radio transmitter when sounds
are playing, options to set the playback speed and pitch, as well as
several bug fixes.

Sound Byte is targeted to DJs,

Recordare has released a W3C XML Schema Definition (XSD) version of
its MusicXML 2.0 format for digital sheet music. Recordare has also
released version 4.5 of its Dolet 4 for Finale plug-in, including
support for validating MusicXML files against the new XSD version of
the format.

The XSD version of MusicXML 2.0 defines the format more precisely
than did the original Document Type Definition (DTD) version.

Freeverse has released Big Bang Board Games
(http://freeverse.com/games/game/?id=1234) for the iPhone and iPod
touch. The collection brings Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Reversi,
4-in-a-Row, Mancala and Tic Tac Toe to the devices.

Big Bang Board Games sports a 3D environment, different piece sets,
landscape and portrait mode, auto-saving, unlimited undo and animated
talking opponents. It ships fully localized into French, Spanish,
German, Dutch, Italian and Japanese.

Big Bang Board Games are available for US$7.99 on the Apple App Store.